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children's literature

(Encyclopedia)children's literature, writing whose primary audience is children. See also children's book illustration. The contributions and innovations of the 19th cent. continued into the 20th cent., achieving...

Children's Crusade

(Encyclopedia)Children's Crusade: see Crusades. ...

games, children's

(Encyclopedia)games, children's, amusements or pastimes involving more than one child and in which there is some sort of formalized dramatic element, contest, or plot. Games are a cultural universal; for example, t...

children's book illustration

(Encyclopedia)children's book illustration, any type of picture or decorative work produced for books specifically intended for a youthful audience. During the 1960s a number of seldom-used techniques were introd...

Children's Television Workshop

(Encyclopedia)Children's Television Workshop: see Cooney, Joan Ganz. ...

United Nations Children's Fund

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), a specialized fund of the United Nations. It was established in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, and became a permanent part...

children, delinquent

(Encyclopedia)children, delinquent: see juvenile delinquency. ...

United Nations Children's Emergency Fund

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Children's Emergency Fund: see United Nations Children's Fund. ...

literature

(Encyclopedia)literature. For the literature of England, see English literature; for that of Germany, see German literature, and so forth. For the forms of literary art, see biography, essay, novel, theater, letter...

Three Holy Children

(Encyclopedia)Three Holy Children: see Three Young Men. ...